WOHS Cheerleaders Host Turkey Drive - "CHEERS FOR CHANGE"

Cheers For Change, will make it easier to donate food to those in need for Thanksgiving. Teams of West Orange cheerleaders will pick up your donations of turkeys and other food stuffs at your home and take them to the Mayor’s Sunshine Fund collection in the township of West Orange.

To arrange to have your turkey and canned or boxed food collected email cheersforchange@gmail.com, call Amy at 973-669-0600, or contact the Director of Welfare Patty Duffy at pduffy@westorange.org, or 973-325-4150. To sign up to drive email cheersforchange@gmail.com.

Cheers For Change is an organization founded in 2010 by Hannah Gardner, a varsity cheerleader at West Orange High School, with a goal to utilize the spirit, ethos, commitment, team work and energy of the community of cheerleaders to facilitate works of community service. Cheers For Change will provide a team of volunteers for community service projects, will perform at schools, seniors citizen facilities, and not for profit organizations, and train special needs and youth in cheerleading skills and team building strategies.

“As cheerleaders with intense practice and game schedules we have little outside time to do the community service that inspires us. Cheers For Change makes it possible for cheerleaders to integrate our community service desires and our squads, and use the team spirit focus to help others, “ said Hannah Gardner. “The Turkey Drive Drive also puts our new drivers licenses and driving permits to good use for the community.”

Cheers For Change is open for membership to all New Jersey cheerleaders in school and/or competition squads. Leadership and committee chair positions available as are opportunities for chapter creation across the State.

To learn more about Cheers For Change visit Cheers For Change on Facebook. Or contact parent advisor Amy Simon at amy@asimonsays.com.